1 Corinthians 16:7 in the World English Bible
For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
Context
6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.